THE BIG PICTURE
Sysco LABS is the captive innovation arm of Sysco Corporation (NYSE: SYY), the world’s largest foodservice company. Sysco is a Fortune 500 company and the global leader in selling, marketing, and distributing food products to restaurants, healthcare, and educational facilities, lodging establishments and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Its family of products also includes equipment and supplies for the foodservice and hospitality industries. With more than 76,000 colleagues, the company operates 334 distribution facilities worldwide and serves approximately 730,000 customer locations. For fiscal year 2024 that ended July 1, 2024, the company generated sales of more than $78.8 billion.
Operating with the agility and tenacity of a tech–startup, powered by the expertise of the industry leader, Sysco LABS is perfectly poised to transform one of the world’s largest industries.
Sysco LABS’s engineering teams based out of Colombo, Sri Lanka and Austin and Houston, TX, innovate across the entire food service journey – from the enterprise grade technology that enables Sysco’s business, to the technology that revolutionizes the way that Sysco connects with restaurants and the technology that shapes the way those restaurants connect with customers.
Sysco LABS technology is present in the sourcing of food products, merchandising, storage and warehouse operations, order placement and pricing algorithms, the delivery of food and supplies to Sysco’s global network, the in-restaurant dining experience of the end-customer and much more.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are currently on the lookout for a Senior Software Engineer – AS400 to join our team.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Providing ongoing maintenance, support and enhancements in existing systems and platforms
Collaborating cross-functionally with other software engineers and developers, business users, product owners and customers to achieve solutions that meet business expectations
Working alongside other members of the team to elevate technology and consistently apply best practices
Adhering to architecture standards and development best practices like Test-Driven development, code reviews, static code analysis and secure coding
Writing technical user stories and ensuring that non-functional requirements are met to ensure performance, scaling, resilience and maintainability of software/solutions
Actively resolving defects and managing technical debt
Developing and executing unit tests to ensure business/customer requirements are delivered
Participating in sprint planning, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews and retrospectives to enable progress, and surface and resolve impediments
Collaborating with the team to support end-to-end including design, development, QA, deployment and production support
Providing recommendations for continuous improvement
Testing software development methodology in an agile environment A minimum 5 years’ IT experience in an AS400, RPG environment
REQUIREMENTS
A minimum 5 years’ IT experience in an AS400, RPG environment
A College Degree or equivalent years of IT experience
Experience using: AS400/IBM i – RPG, CL, DB2, ILE and SQL
Experience developing user interfaces using DDS screens
Experience programming using subfiles
Experience debugging programs
Experience with version control systems for the appropriate technology stack
Experience developing in an agile environment as part of a scrum team
Experience with test driven development (TDD)
Experience using Jira an asset
Experience using Service Now an asset
Experience in a Distribution environment is preferred
The ability to work in a constantly changing, fast-paced environment
Extremely detail-oriented, fast learner with the ability to handle multiple tasks
Proficient troubleshooting abilities
Proficient communication skills
BENEFITS
US dollar-linked compensation
Performance-based annual bonus
Performance rewards and recognition
Agile Benefits - special allowances for Health, Wellness & Academic purposes
Paid birthday leave
Team engagement allowance
Comprehensive Health & Life Insurance Cover - extendable to parents and in-laws
Overseas travel opportunities and exposure to client environments
Hybrid work arrangement
